Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, September 21, 2012

It would be no small advantage if every college were located at the base of a mountain.


"It would be no small advantage if every college were located at the base of a mountain, as good at least as one well-endowed professorship . . . Some will remember, no doubt, not only that they went to college, but that they went to the mountain.  Every visit to its summit would, as it were, generalize the particular information gained below, and subject it to more universal tests."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Mt. Richtofen and the peaks of the Never Summer Range peek through a screen of golden aspen trees in the Medicine Bow Range, CO; September 14, 2012

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